Local quantum information dynamics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a geometric and algebraic framework for quantum dynamics that incorporates local nonlinearity, entropic measures, and geometry, offering new insights into quantum state evolution and information theory.

Contribution

It develops a novel approach combining geometry, algebra, and path integrals to describe local quantum dynamics and postquantum theories with nonlinearity and gravity-like features.

Findings

Quantum propagation as free fall along entropy-minimizing trajectories

Trajectories weighted by local quantum entropic priors

Nonlinear control variables alter quantum state space curvature

Abstract

In this paper we: 1) show how the smooth geometry of spaces of normal quantum states over W*-algebras (generalised spaces of density matrices) may be used to substantially enrich the description of quantum dynamics in the algebraic and path integral approaches; 2) discuss a framework for postquantum information theories, such that quantum mechanical linearity holds only locally, while the nonlocal multi-user dynamics exhibits some similarity with general relativity. In the algebraic setting, we propose a method of incorporating nonlinear Poisson and relative entropic local dynamics, as well as local gauge and local source structures, into an effective description of local temporal evolution of quantum states by using fibrewise perturbations of liouvilleans in the fibre bundle of Hilbert spaces. In the path integral setting, we incorporate local geometry by a generalisation of the Daubechies--Klauder coherent state phase space propagator formula. Finally, we discuss the role of Bregman relative entropy in the Jaynes--Mitchell--Favretti renormalisation scheme. As a result, we show that: 1) the propagation of quantum particles (in Wigner's sense) can be naturally explained as a free fall along the trajectories locally minimising the quantum relative entropy; 2) the contribution of particular trajectories to the global path integral is weighted by the local quantum entropic prior, measuring user's lack of information; 3) the presence of nonlinear quantum control variables results in the change of the curvature of the global quantum state space; 4) the behaviour of zero-point energy under renormalisation of local entropic dynamics is maintained by local redefinition of information mass (prior), which encodes the curvature change. This leads us to a new framework for nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics based on quantum Orlicz spaces, quantum Bregman distances and Banach Lie algebras.